... some proposals contemplate only to simplify paperwork for companies through several means such as repealing articles in legislation, or reforms to the Public-Private Partnership Laws to open the door ...

... be public and will provide their findings regarding the allegations that have been made,” said Coumans.
“Our primary goal in working for the creation of this office has been to provide an avenue ...

... by a stray bullet.
According to Miguel Rivera, brother of Ramiro Rivera, the work that environmentalists have done in resistance to Pacific Rim's plans has been minimized and linked to gang problems ...

... in Guatemala; RENACAMIH and COPINH, Honduras, ADES Santa Marta in El Salvador, and the Latin American Network of Women Defenders of Social and Environmental Rights express our concerns about the effects ...

... in El Salvador in support of their work to prevent gold mining in their communities since 2009. That is the year when your Pac Rim Cayman subsidiary filed an unjust investor - state lawsuit with the International ...

... was the Institute for Policy Studies which is based in Washington. Manuel Pérez Rocha works in this Institute, and he as previously a member of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC).
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... of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining. It was in 2004 when the communities of the Departments of Chalatenango and Cabañas – where Morales lives – realized that the works Pacific Rim/Oceana ...

... where she represented her organization ADES, with missionary Dário Bossio, executive member of the Network of Churches and Mining.
“In many cases, there are judicial instrument which are either forgotten ...

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"My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in ...

... The Foro submitted a draft bill to propose a legislative framework to publicly manage scarce water resources in the country and to prioritize public access over business use. Government officials at th ...

... es that have been worked by international consultants, but with a result that is detrimental to the social well being of the population. Which makes suspect that what the right parties are looking for ...

... inley is a specialist in water and mining at Central American University José Simeón Cañas. He has worked on development issues in Central America since 1977.]
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... was to get the community talking long before the vote. “We made sure there were workshops so that the people could learn what a model of extraction consists of, and why they might want a ban,” Bellos ...

... around the mines.4
Community groups linked together across El Salvador and found allies in the Catholic Church and in groups in the capital city of San Salvador that worked on human rights and development. ...

... such as ICSID…we all worked based on this narrative”. For Pedro Cabezas, this coherent narrative reflected “the shared vision of all of the actors involved in the struggle”. And so provided an important ...

... The legislative assembly’s multi-partisan commission on the environment and climate change quickly got to work on the proposed text.
Before their final vote on the bill proposal, members of the commission ...

... Allies Against Mining in El Salvador, a key organizing and solidarity group.
Over the past three years, Cabezas has worked within local networks to organize municipal referendums on mining. In community ...

... to the work these community activists were involved in to protect the environment.
The escalation of social division and violence, the time and effort that the Salvadoran government has had to dedicate ...